[Cialug] SATA the norm these days?

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

About 2 years ago i had to make this same decision when i wanted to add 
a drive to my file server. I bought a PCI<-->SATA card and haven't 
looked back. I think the motherboard & CPU in that particular machine 
are circa 1999 or 2000 (it's a 450 MHz P-II), but it works just fine 
with the SATA drives that are hanging off of the card. Right now i'm 
not certain if i'm booting from an SATA drive or from an older IDE; but 
i *think* i'm still booting from IDE.

On Saturday June 21 2008 16:39, Colin Burnett wrote:
>I'm currently facing an issue of an older system (Athlon XP 2400+
>2GHz) which needs a storage upgrade but has no SATA on the mobo (nor
>PCIe).  I could buy PATA drives or some cheap PCI <--> SATA card & get
>SATA drives or get a new system.
>
>Going with PATA means this round of drives will be relegated to older
>harder (not forward compatible).
>Going with PCI <--> SATA means I'm spending an additional >$40 for the
>card which is worthless in new hardware, but it means the drives are
>forward compatible.
>Going with a new system means I've got Yet Another Obsoleted Machine
>(TM) which runs perfectly fine for what it does.
>
>I expect PATA & PCI to be an increasingly scarce thing on mobos of the
>future, so I really don't want to go option #1 or #2 but would prefer
>#2 over #1.  #3 just plain sucks, again, because the machine is
>perfectly fine for all reasons except storage size.  However, a new
>CPU + mobo + memory can be had for (last spec'ed maybe a month ago)
>under $130 for non-bleeding-edge hardware, which means $40 is a
>significant chunk.
>
>Any perspectives on this decision from anyone?  :)
>
>
>Colin
>
>On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>> I just read the statement:
>>
>> "Most modern desktop systems ship with storage devices (hard disk
>> and CD/DVD drives) on a Serial ATA bus, rather than the older IDE
>> (ribbon cable) bus type."
>>
>> in a kernel config document on gentoo.org.  Is this true?  I know I
>> just bought a motherboard and it had SATA on it, but I thought it
>> was being all edgy and stuff.  Is SATA really the norm these days?
>>
>> -todd
>
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